"nosegent" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nosegents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nosegent (plural nosegents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Charles Hindley, The Old Book Collector's Miscellany:",
          "text": "There was a proud patrico and a nosegent, he toke his Jockam in his famble, and a wapping he went, he dockt the Dell, he prygge to praunce, he byngd a wast into the darkemans, he fylche the Cofe without any fylche man.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Anabelle Bryant, The Den Of Iniquity:",
          "text": "'Still the lovely old nosegents were generous with their information when I asked about the grave.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Diana Norman, The Pirate Queen:",
          "text": "'Oh, I forgot,' he said, mincing, 'you nosegents is so fokking pure.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A nun."
      ],
      "id": "en-nosegent-en-noun-9dIgHpDt",
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          "nun",
          "nun"
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      ],
      "qualifier": "street cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, London, street cant) A nun."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "London",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nosegent"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nosegents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "nosegent (plural nosegents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "London English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Charles Hindley, The Old Book Collector's Miscellany:",
          "text": "There was a proud patrico and a nosegent, he toke his Jockam in his famble, and a wapping he went, he dockt the Dell, he prygge to praunce, he byngd a wast into the darkemans, he fylche the Cofe without any fylche man.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Anabelle Bryant, The Den Of Iniquity:",
          "text": "'Still the lovely old nosegents were generous with their information when I asked about the grave.'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Diana Norman, The Pirate Queen:",
          "text": "'Oh, I forgot,' he said, mincing, 'you nosegents is so fokking pure.'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A nun."
      ],
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          "nun"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "street cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, London, street cant) A nun."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "London",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nosegent"
}